Rest of World, Business Insider win National Magazine Awards
Global tech news site Rest of World and Business Insider were among the winners of National Magazine Awards on Tuesday night. Rest of World won in the design category for for “40 Companies That Are Beating the West,” Oct. 5; “How AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes,” Oct. 10; and “China, the World’s Shopping Cart,” […]
Rest of World hires Chandran as Southeast Asia editor
Rina Chandran, who has covered business and technology across Asia, is joining Rest of World as its Southeast Asia editor. A story on its website states, “Rina comes to us from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she was the Asia tech correspondent. Her work on the company’s Context platform covered the impact of technology on […]
Rest of World’s Deck joins Nieman Reports
Rest of World staff writer Andrew Deck has left the news organization to join Nieman Lab. Deck will write about the intersection between artificial intelligence and journalism. At Rest of World, where he worked since September 2019, he covered global social media companies, often providing insights into platform trust and safety, the creator economy and internet culture. […]
Rest of World hires Chiu as China editor
Joanna Chiu, an award-winning correspondent and author who has covered China for more than a decade, is joining Rest of World as its China editor. A story on its website states, “Joanna comes to us from the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, where she served as British Columbia bureau chief. She played a key part in […]
Rest of World, HBR, Business Insider among magazine award finalists
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced Thursday the finalists for the 59th annual National Magazine Awards. The business publications that are finalists are: Rest of World for general excellence in the literature, science and politics category. In the design category, Harvard Business Review for July–August print issue; “Create Stories That Change Your Company’s Culture,” […]
Rest of World hires Bhattacharya as South Asia reporter
Rest of World has hired Ananya Bhattacharya as its South Asia reporter. She has been at Quartz as a global breaking news writer. Bhattacharya also worked for Quartz India as a tech writer. She covered stories ranging from Amazon’s warehouse robots to swarm electrification in Bangladesh. She worked in New York, covering both U.S. and India tech stories, and then […]
Rest of World hires Zabludovsky as Latin America editor
Karla Zabludovsky, who has covered Latin America extensively for BuzzFeed News and The New York Times, is joining Rest of World as its Latin America editor. She will start Jan. 8. Zabludovsky started her career in journalism in Haiti, in 2010, covering the aftermath of the deadly earthquake that ravaged the Caribbean nation. Then, after completing her […]
Rest of World seeks a South Asia reporter
Rest of Worldis an international nonprofit newsroom that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated. Since launching in 2020, we’ve published stories from nearly 100 countries outside the West. Our work explores the spaces where tech, business, […]
Bloomberg hires Hilton as breaking news editor in Japan
Bloomberg News has hired Sarah Hilton to be a breaking news editor in Japan. She has been at Rest of World as Asia editor covering Southeast Asia, Japan and the Koreas based in Tokyo. Before that, Hilton was an assistant editor on the award-winning Big Story desk at Nikkei Asia. Before that, she held the […]
Rest of World China editor set to depart
Yi-Ling Liu, writer and China editor at Rest of World, is set to depart. As per her post on X/Twitter, she will focus her attention on her new book which is a narrative non-fiction book about the shifting bounds of public life in China, to be published by Penguin Press. At Rest of World, Liu […]
